“As long as you let your partner see the real you, and you see the real them, then you’re in great shape.” As a wild teen, Hugh Jackman slid off literally anything, pretending to be a ski-jumper. “A mate of mine had a balcony that went into the pool, and I remember us doing a bit of flopping. And we used to do a set-up, like, with couches,” he says, recalling his youthful attempts for non-Olympic gold.
Now, the grown-up action hero in his own right gets to do the real thing in the biographical sports drama Eddie the Eagle (well, with a bit of movie magic, of course!). “Ski-jumping was a sport that no one in Australia did, and to this day I don’t know if we even have…